Real Skills Workshop - Community Event
Receiving What’s Good - Even When Life Is Complicated
Real Skills Workshop: Energy Savvy
Hosts: Rick Wilkes (@Rick) and Cathy Vartuli (@Cathy)
Sun Mar 8 2026 at 5pm EDT / 2pm PDT (90 mins with a 7 min break)
We hope you’ll join us, and bring a guest!
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- You are welcome to attend as our guest, Free!
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When the world feels unstable—politically, emotionally, or inside your own family—many of us make a quiet promise to ourselves:
“I’ll let myself feel good once things calm down.”
“I’ll accept support when I’m doing better.”
“I’ll enjoy life again later.”
It’s a tender instinct—and one that slowly drains us.
This belief doesn’t just postpone pleasure. It withholds the very nourishment that helps us keep going: moments of beauty, emotional kindness, practical support, and material ease. Over time, it can leave us feeling alone, undeserving, and braced against life—right when we most need to feel met.
Being able to be with both the positive and negative at the same time is a more advanced skill. A skill that allows us to embrace the beauty of the lotus while we are standing in the mud… (Thich Nhat Hanh often said, No mud, No Lotus).
Are you willing to stretch yourself to make room for the abundance around us, while staying aware that the world is not perfect?
In this 90-minute ThrivingNow real skills workshop, we’ll explore how to let emotional and material goodness land now, without pretending things are fine or pushing yourself beyond your edge.
Using EFT Tapping and mindful awareness, we’ll gently loosen the belief that struggle disqualifies you from receiving—and practice allowing support, beauty, and relief to coexist with what’s hard.
Because abundance isn’t a reward for surviving well.
***It’s part of what helps us survive… And even Thrive!
We hope you’ll join us for this exploration together.
Explore this with Rick’s AI here if you’d like…